Archive for the ‘WooCommerce’ Category

Tips for starting your startup

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

A recent report shows that Australia now leads the world in the pace of online business start-ups. Internet start-ups have increased 200% from 2010 and 2012, four times the pace in the United States and Britain.

With so many new startups popping up, Dynamic Business has released a set of tips for Australians who want to get in on all the startup action:

Manage your time. Whether you’re an early riser or prefer burning the midnight oil, find what works best for you. Running a store can require a lot of time and energy, but it’s important to separate your stress. Don’t let the worries of one job impact another and develop (and stick to) a routine that maximises productivity.

Think easy. Great designs are nice, but if your online store isn’t intuitive for customers, all bets are off. Re-evaluate the functionality of your homepage and make sure customers can get to where they’re trying to go.

Focus on quality. Use high-resolution product images and take the time to write detailed product descriptions from a customer’s perspective. If you want customers to spend the time reading it, spend the time writing it!

Try new forms of marketing. One of the most critical aspects for any online store is marketing, but it can be costly. Content marketing, such as blogging, is a great, low-cost alternative and offers small businesses a big bang for your buck.

Find your inspiration. Ultimately, success often boils down to having the passion and drive to keep things running through the highs and lows. When the going gets tough, remember what inspired you to start your own business. If you’re doing something you love, your passion will shine through and motivate to push on.

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Australian introduces animal onesies down under, reaps rewards

Friday, September 6th, 2013

Australian Mike Langford quit his IT job and started selling animal onesies online and has never been happier.

For the uninitiated, a onesie is a full body pajama (think what babies often wear) and an animal onesie is a onesie with an animal theme to it (why should babies have all the dress up fun?) By the way, these oneseies are for adults.

Langford started his site www.animalsuits.com.au in July 2012 using WooCommerce and it is now his full-time endeavor.

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Yotpo social review plugin now available for WooCommerce

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Yotpo, the free social networking review plugin for ecommerce sites, is now available for WooCommerce sites.

Yotpo sends automatic emails to your customers a certain number of days after their purchase and prompts them to review the product. On average, Yotpo claims to convert 8% of customers into reviewers, which may not sound like much, but is a ot higher than the industry average of just 1.2%.

Yotpo also makes it easy for reviewers to share their reviews on their social networking accounts, which in turn drives traffic to the sites using Yotpo.

Unlike other plugins that promise to drive traffic to your site but don’t actually prove it, Yotpo has its Campaigns feature, which lets you keep track of exactly how what Yotpo has done for your site.

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WooCommerce introduces 7 more extensions

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

WooCommerce has recently introduced another seven exciting extensions for everybody’s favourite online store creator.

They are:

  • Hipay.com Payment Gateway – This is a plugin to extend Woocommerce, allowing you to take payments via the Hipay payment service.
  • US Export Compliance – Makes your shop compliant with the US Export regulations.
  • Group Coupons – Allows you to link coupon validity to WordPress users.
  • ConstantContact Integration – Allows you to build Your Constant Contact email list with WooCommerce.
  • Recommendation Engine – Allows you to offer Netflix/Amazon style product suggestions to your customers.
  • InterFax Integration – Integrates your WooCommerce site with InterFax, which enables you to fax the order details to your customers and yourself on every completed purchase.
  • Composite Products – With “Composite Products”, WooCommerce allows you to create sophisticated, dynamic product kits by compositing existing products.

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Great free WooCommerce extensions available

Monday, July 15th, 2013

There are a slew of free WooCommerce extensions available for people who use the software.
Some of the free extensions include:

  • Product Archives Customiser – Allows you to customise WooCommerce product archives. Change the number of product columns and the number of products displayed per page and more.
  • Sold Out Product Widget – It enhances the built-in WooCommerce functionality by adding a Widget and Shortcode for displaying sold out products.
  • Smart Sale Badge – It enhances the built-in sale badge by displaying the total saving amount a customer will receive.
  • Bundle Coupons – Enables store owners to make a coupon only apply when all products required for it are in the cart.
  • Product Details Customiser – Allows you to customise WooCommerce product details pages.
  • Email Validation – It adds a “confirm email address” field to the checkout page as a required field.
  • Menu Cart – This plugin installs a customizable shopping cart button in the navigation bar.
  • Bitcoin Payments – This is a WordPress plugin that allows acceptance of bitcoins at WooCommerce-powered online stores.
  • Improvely – Allows store owners to see the specific website link customers clicked, search they typed into Google, or ad they clicked to get to your site.
  • New Product Badge – Displays a “new” badge on products that were published in the last x days (as determined by you in the settings).

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Happy Birthday to WooThemes!

Thursday, July 11th, 2013

OPMC wishes the team at WooThemes a Happy 5th Birthday!

The WooThemes team is just hitting their stride at the moment, having recently celebrated the milestone of 1 million downloads.

As WooTheme’s Mark Forrester said himself; “To be an online business and to make it to 5 years is an achievement in itself. To be 5 years old and to be experiencing our best growth month-on-month yet is testament to the team that powers our product offering.”

They are celebrating their fifth birthday with the release of the new ‘Memorable’ theme.

Again, Happy Birthday to WooThemes!

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Shipment tracker service now available for WooCommerce sites

Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

You can now track shipments purchased with WooCommerce sites with the WooCommerce Shipment Tracking v1.1.4 Plugin.

You can use the plugin to add shipment tracking information to your orders and provide customers with an easy way to track their shipments.

After adding details to an order, the tracking information will appear in emails, the order tracking page, and the order view page in their account section.

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WooCommerce hits 1 million downloads

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

The team here at OPMC congratulate the WooThemes team on 1 million downloads of WooCommerce! And they did it in less than two years!

Once the WooCommerce hit the half-million download milestone six months ago, it became a veritable juggernaut, averaging about 5,000 downloads per day over the last few weeks.

That’s a lot of people embracing the convenience and cost cutting measures of online commerce, something WooThemes and OPMC is glad to see.

Again, congratulations, WooThemes! You deserve it!